Many sea creatures form flocks and nest on plastic trash floating in the ocean
Called the neo-ocean community, swarms of these creatures are growing in the Pacific Garbage Island area and drifting with the currents.
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Called the neo-ocean community, swarms of these creatures are growing in the Pacific Garbage Island area and drifting with the currents.
The blue heron is a large bird in the heron genus Ardeidae that commonly inhabits open waters and wetlands in North and Central America.
The dolphins that visit Monkey Mia every morning draw more than 100,000 visitors to the beach each year, and for good reason, there's no place like it in the world.
The elk rabbit, an animal that resembles a North American big-eared rabbit and has antlers of antelope or deer, is a cultural symbol of the American West.
The reason comes from the amazing ability of crocodiles to adapt and fast.
A team of researchers identified upstream mussels in Wisconsin as more than 100 years old based on the time it took to build the dam.
On Earth, there are many strange parasites and they can become nightmares for their hosts.
Research confirms that humans killed the last of the original Norwegian wolves in the 1970s.
In a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, an expert was invited by the villagers when they discovered a huge cave near a cornfield.
Snakes cannot burrow, but they can sometimes burrow into soft, loose soil or sand.
Haast eagles live in New Zealand, they weigh up to 15kg and have claws up to 9cm long, with a wingspan of up to 3m.
New research shows that the act of vomiting into each other's mouth is not only to pass food to each other, but also to form social relationships.
If the longest river in the world is the Nile in Africa, the largest river in the world is the Amazon River - this river has the largest basin and the most water flow in…
The small, cold town of Churchill, with difficult access in Canada, is known as the 'polar bear capital', an attractive place that attracts many adventurous tourists.
The mole species discovered in Ngoc Linh mountain (Kon Tum) and the Central Truong Son area is about the same size as the Vietnamese mole rat, but significantly smaller…